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State To Tap Immigrant Return Fund

State to tap immigrant return fund By Michael Brennan Political Correspondent Irish Independent Monday December 07 2009 THE Government is seeking EU funds to get illegal immigrants from Nigeria, China and Brazil to leave the country. It wants to tap … Continue reading

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Recruitment Agencies Export Thousands Of Skilled Builders

Recruitment agencies export thousands of skilled builders By Breda Heffernan Irish Independent Monday December 07 2009 RECRUITMENT agencies are now exporting thousands of construction workers they brought to Ireland in the good times. At the height of the property boom … Continue reading

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Paris’s Illegal Immigrants Fight To Live Openly

Paris's illegal immigrants fight to live openly Hundreds of people in France's biggest squat wage a vocal campaign for legal residency Susan Sachs Paris–From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published on Monday, Dec. 07, 2009 8:47PM EST Last updated on Friday, … Continue reading

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French Immigration Fears Cloud Identity Debate

French immigration fears cloud identity debate By Carole Landry (AFP) Dec 5, 2009 PARIS—President Nicolas Sarkozy insists it is a noble exercise in soul-searching about what defines Frenchness, but the national identity debate gripping France has quickly exposed fears about … Continue reading

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Dutch MP’s Want Immigrants To Learn National Anthem

Dutch MPs want immigrants to learn national anthem A majority of MPs want immigrants following the compulsory integration course to learn at least part of the Dutch national anthem. Expatica (Netherlands), December 2, 2009 http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/dutch-news/Most-Dutch-MPs-want-immigrants-to-learn-national-anthem-_58516.html# The Hague — A majority … Continue reading

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Poll Shows Hardening Of Attitude Towards Immigrants

Poll shows hardening of attitude towards immigrants CARL O'BRIEN, Chief Reporter The Irish Times – Tuesday, November 24, 2009 THE VAST majority (72 per cent) of people want to see a reduction in the number of non-Irish immigrants living here, … Continue reading

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Permission To Challenge State On Non-EU Dependant Refused

Permission to challenge State on non-EU dependant refused MARY CAROLAN The Irish Times Tuesday, November 24, 2009 AN IRISH man, his Chinese-born wife and their two Irish-born children have been refused permission to bring a High Court challenge to the … Continue reading

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Spain Helping Mauritania Slow Illegal Immigration

Spain Helping Mauritania Slow Illegal Immigration Spanish, Mauritanian governments step up patrols along the coast to stop illegal immigration; Madrid helps Nouakchott with an annual budget of $750 million and a small plane to keep watch on immigration routes. Scott … Continue reading

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Original Residents Are Leaving Vantaa’s Suburb Of Hakunila

Original residents are leaving Vantaas suburb of Hakunila Immigrants now account for 16% of Hakunila population HELSINGIN SANOMAT INTERNATIONAL EDITION – METRO November 23, 2009 Vantaas district of Hakunila is one of those residential areas with rental apartments that is … Continue reading

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Germany Wants Contracts To Clarify Immigrant Responsibilities

Germany wants contracts to clarify immigrant responsibilities Deutsche Welle 23.11.2009 Germany plans to have immigrants sign “integration contracts” that would oblige foreigners seeking to live in the country to avow certain values, such as freedom of speech and equal rights … Continue reading

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Uproar Over Italian Town’s Foreigner Registration Drive

Uproar over Italian Town's Foreigner Registration Drive REUTERS November 23, 2009 (PHOTO : A woman walks past Northern League election posters in Milan in 2008. The posters read: “They suffered through immigration; now they live on reservations.”) Officials in the … Continue reading

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Liberals Reject Immigant Citizenship Course

Liberals reject immigrant citizenship course Published: 22 Nov 09 14:08 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23414/20091122/ The Liberal Party has voted against a proposal from the party leadership for the introduction of mandatory courses for all immigrants seeking Swedish citizenship. The party members … Continue reading

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Schengen Committee Visits Cyprus To Look At Illegal Immigration Problems

Schengen committee visits Cyprus to look at illegal immigration problems By Patrick Dewhurst The Cyprus Mail November 14, 2009 CYPRUS may host the new European Asylum office to counter illegal immigration, according to an Italian Parliamentary committee that visited Cyprus … Continue reading

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Immigrants Shun Plan To Take Money, Go Home

Immigrants shun plan to take money, go home By Associated Press Friday, November 13, 2009 MADRID Nearly 9,000 jobless immigrants have signed up for a plan that pays them to return home until Spains recession-hit economy recovers, the government said … Continue reading

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Former Kouvola Mayor Questioned For Links With Illegal Immigration

Former Kouvola Mayor Questioned for Links with Illegal Immigration YLE News November 12, 2009 published Thu 03:17 PM, updated Thu 04:49 PM Police suspect the former mayor of Kouvola, Aimo Ahti, of being involved in obtaining residence permits on false … Continue reading

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Push To Build Mosques Is Met With Resistance

Push to Build Mosques Is Met With Resistance By JOHN TAGLIABUE Copenhagen Journal The New York Times Published: November 11, 2009 COPENHAGEN—Paris has its grand mosque, on the Left Bank. So does Rome, the city of the pope. Yet despite … Continue reading

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China Center In Kouvola Raided By Border Guard

China Center in Kouvola Raided by Border Guard YLE News published Nov 11 02:30 PM, updated Thu 05:12 PM Police and the Finnish Border Guard have raided several houses in Kouvola which they believe were used by criminals organizing illegal … Continue reading

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Teens Sign Up For Jihad At Stockholm Youth Centre

Teens sign up for jihad at Stockholm youth centre Published: 11 Nov 09 16:21 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23212/20091111/ Swedish taxpayers helped fund a youth recreation centre in the north Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby which served as a recruiting station for the … Continue reading

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Foreigners To Get 100,000 Kroner Incentive To Leave Denmark

Foreigners to get 100,000 kroner incentive to leave Denmark The Copenhagen Post Monday, 09 November 2009 12:40 KR News Immigrants who cant or wont integrate into Danish society will get a bonus if they return home The Danish Peoples Party … Continue reading

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80,000 More Filipinos In Italy In 2008

80,000 more Filipinos in Italy in 2008 abs-cbnNEWS.com 11/08/2009 6:01 PM MANILA—-Newly-released data on Italys migrant population by that countrys census registry showed that the number of documented Filipinos grew by 8,011 more in 2008. ISTAT (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica), … Continue reading

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